Virgin media Phone rip off
Virgin media price in crease 1 August phone line rental £13.90 just joined sky 1/2 price for 6 months 5.50 free evening /weekend calls and 0870 free caller display virgin want to force every one to take the phone-line because they make so much money out of it
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Sound good until you consider the need to pay BT as well. Or am I mistaken ?
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So essentially VM will be charging the same as BT. Not that big an issue surely?
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BT charge 1p a minute for evening calls which are 8.63p a minute on VM |
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I remember waaaay back when United Artists were hawking their services, door to door back in 1994. "Much cheaper than BT" was their cry. Well now they simply do whatever BT do. If BT introduce a charge for late payment, VM, follow. If BT increase their charges, VM are right behind them, matching them penny for penny. In some cases they are unbelievably more expensive.
Once upon a time we were supposed to have competition in the telecoms market. Now it's all "well such and such do it, so we will too". Those that piggyback off BT ...that's hardly REAL competition because you're still stuck on BT's ancient tech. Once my contract is up, my landline is junked and I'm staying with my mobile provider and skype for overseas. Cheaper per month and boatloads of extras. If I got rid of it, I'd be £3p/m better off. It used to save me cash, now it doesn't. I'd call that a FAIL :D |
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VM for whatever reason are quite expensive for phone use compared to the competition.
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http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/..._august_V6.pdf (Page 5) Call rates to 0870 (UKN) Talk Weekends Connection Fee (ppc) Daytime 11.24 Evening 11.24 Weekend Included1 Standard Call Rate (ppm) Daytime 10.22 Evening 10.22 Weekend Included1 1 Call connection fee does not apply. 0870 calls are free for the first 60 minutes, 10.22ppm therafter. Re-dial before 60 minutes to avoid call charges. This applies to all the Talk plans |
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Thanks for that bit of info Ben
That's good news re 0870 numbers from August. But why the charge still for 0845?? That makes no sense to make one free and still pay for the other. |
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Sky also give you free caller display. Putting both VM and BT to shame charging for it.
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do you have to have a new phone number when transfering from VM to sky, BT or Talk Talk or can you keep the same phone number ?
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My folks still have BT and I am sure it's still for them. They rolled it out as some sort of security perk or something mking you safe at home or whatever. It's not something I would pay for but the sooner they sort out these last rememaining exchanges and potentially get back to it being free as they announced some time back before immediately backing off. The amount of nusiance marketing calls etc I get now is ridiculous and they are all we do not have the callers number so guessing they are International. Even had one the other day saying they were some nuisnace call firm who were going to add my nuber to the TPS. When I said it already was but it didn't stop foreigners like him ringing me up as TPS only applied to the UK he hung up. |
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As Trickytree says, if you sign up to BT's security package (whatever it's called) you get caller ID free.
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